Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Who'll NOT be MC

Pleeeeease do not get Amran Tompel again. For those who were there for OBW 2005, I am sure you cringed as much as I did. Before I carry on with my diatribe, here’s a short resumé of Mr Amran Tompel:
  • A.R. Tompel’s son.
  • A.R. Badul’s brother.
  • Acted in numerous Badul-directed flops (notably Tak Ori Tapi OK which cost RM1 Million to make but only earned RM300K in the box office).
Based on this glorious career history and conections, he found his way into emceeing the grand dinner this year. Fingernails scratching a blackboard. You get the idea……

I could imagine his thoughts when given the assignment (if he even was capable of having any):

“Sekolah Tuanku Abdul Rahman ….Sekolah STAR…. Star Wars.... ini modal bagus untuk buat joke ni…….”

“Bapak aku pemes….. cerita bapak aku dulu ngorat Saloma menarik jugak ... lepas tu aku usik Azian Mazwan Safuan pasal aku datang dari keturunan orang banyak bini.... sure diorang tergelak terbahak-bahak...”

”Joke lama abang aku daripada Bakat TV tahun 1975 pun mesti meletup .....”

“Diorang ni banyak veteran ... kalau nyanyi lagu ‘My Way’ mesti diorang suka...”

On that last count I wasn’t sure whether we were supposed to laugh or be serenaded when he did his heart-wrenching rendition of the Ol' Blue Eyes classic. Anyway thank you Mr Amran Tompel for such a hilarious and entertaining evening. NOT!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Blackboard scratch it sure was, buddy. What were they thinking when they decided on Tompel's lesser-known offspring? But try he did. Gotta give him THAT much credit.

For OBW2006 we must have, in Czar's two word's, T's and A's!! No two ways apart from these.

Anonymous said...

he he..I was not around the OBW this year so I cannot comment much..Maybe the organiser tried to have someone totally different than the MC for the OBW2004 ;-)

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